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"Look, there's no use sugarcoating things," says first-year Iowa State coach Dan McCarney. "I've been coaching 25 years, and this is the smallest defense I've ever been around. It's also...

The unique politics of college football have kept it resistant to substantive changes for decades, an axiom perhaps best illustrated by the sport's official curmudgeon/romanticist, Beano Cook, who said 10...

If you have a mortgage with an interest rate above 9 percent, this might be a good time to refinance. Most people who bought houses in recent years got a...

The surprise would only have been greater if the pope had signed up with a modeling agency. The rich, famous and archetypal '90s sex symbol Elizabeth Hurley last week pledged...

Shards of Memory By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Doubleday, 221 pages, $22.95 Journey to Ithaca By Anita Desai Alfred A. Knopf, 312 pages, $23 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--central European by birth, British-educated...

The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is bracing itself for a spate of compensation claims from victims of child sex abuse by the clergy. If the experience in other countries...

Employers struggling to drive down overhead are using fewer consultants, and they're paying less money to the ones they keep. The quality of a particular consultant's work may not matter...

For most, the boating season is coming to a close. That means it's time to start thinking about proper engine storage. Michael Potter, director of marketing for Johnson and Evinrude...

The real estate industry is always thinking up new products designed to bring in more home buyers. Here are a few that you might find useful in special circumstances: -...

While recent generations kissed their youth goodbye by 30, felt downright old at 50 and started preparing for death by 70, folks today don't even seem to commence adulthood until...